The European Journal of Soil Science has just published online a Special Issue devoted to Pedometrics, which will appear in print in June 2011.The Special Issue was commissioned in honour of Richard Webster, a former Editor in Chief of the Journal and a leading figure in the development of Pedometrics and the formation of the Pedometrics Commission.There are thirteen papers on a wide range of topics including soil geostatistics, Bayesian methods, sampling, sensors, digital soil mapping and wavelets.Titles and abstracts can be viewed at